Lenovo ThinkPad X300 Ultraportable Notebook

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Futuremark PCMark Vantage (Cont.)

We continue our test coverage with more modules from the comprehensive PCMark Vantage suite of benchmarks.

Futuremark PCMark Vantage

Gaming, Productivity, Music and Overall

Courtesy, Futuremark: "Gaming is one of the most popular forms of entertainment for all ages. Today’s games demand high performance graphics cards and CPUs to avoid delays and sluggish performance while playing. Loading screens in games are yesterday’s news. Streaming data from an HDD in games – such as Alan Wake™ – allows for massive worlds and riveting non-stop action. CPUs with many cores give a performance advantage to gamers in real-time strategy and massively multiplayer games. Gaming Suite includes the following tests: "

This test gives a good example of how a solid-state hard drive can help with performance. Even with the ASUS U6S running at 2.2GHz and the Lenovo ThinkPad X300 running at 1.2GHz, they returned nearly identical performance results. Regardless, gaming is not the target audience with a product like this and the results prove it.

PCMark Vantage's 'Productivity' test continued to demonstrate how a solid state hard drive can pick up some of the performance lost by running a significantly slower CPU. Here the Lenovo ThinkPad easily overtook both the ASUS U6S and the desktop replacement ASUS C90S, losing only to the potent Dell XPS M1730.